The front that has dumped rain on San Francisco most of the morning seems to be passing through, according to the weather forecasters. So there’s still a chance that today’s scheduled America’s Cup Race 14 can go off. The rain stopped around 12:30 p.m. Pacific.

The racing has been in doubt not because of the rain but because of the winds out of the south that would make the main east-west course unsailable. The two normally downwind legs and the normally unwind third leg would be reaching legs, and the short first and fifth legs — instead of reaches — would be upwind challenges. Such a course would be just as impractical as a NASCAR oval that’s banked toward the outside instead of the inside.

Race officials offered Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA an alternative north-south course that runs from the San Francisco shoreline toward Treasure Island, but neither team would agree to an unfamiliar racetrack, especially with so much riding on this race. The Kiwis, leading 8-4, are one win away from claiming the America’s Cup.

There’s a slim crowd of umbrella-wielding fans at the end of Piers 27-29. A couple of barefooted Kiwi teenaged boys were throwing a rugby ball around. A cabin cruiser went by that seemed to be playing both ends: A woman near the bow waved a New Zealand flag, while the Stars and Stripes flapped off the stern.

As of 12:55 p.m. Pacific time, the winds were still predominantly southerly at 14 knots, and that’s not good. There will have to be a shift to get one race off around 2 p.m., when the wind limit limit will be 22.5 knots, thanks to a weak .5-knot ebb tide. There’s no chance of getting off a second race today because it can’t start after 2:40.